With reference to the operationalism of american physicist percy w. Carl hempel, two models of scientific explanation carl gustav hempel s 1905 1997 classic account of explanation is widely known as the coveringlaw model. The fountainhead of almost all contemporary thinking about explanation is carl hempel s deductivenomological dn model of explanation. Carl hempel these, in turn, may be explained by subsumption under the more com prehensive general theory of relativity. He was a major figure in logical empiricism, a 20thcentury movement in the philosophy of science. Bridgman, who advocated the semantic reductionism of scientific concepts, hempel presented his proposition for the conceptual description and systematization of the taxonomy of mental illnesses. A tribute on the occasion of his sixtyfifth birthday. Carl gustav peter hempel january 8, 1905 november 9, 1997 was a german writer and philosopher. He is especially well known for his articulation of the deductivenomological model of scientific explanation, which was considered the standard model of scientific explanation during the 1950s. Oppenheim, 1936, emigro en 1939 a estados unidos, donde ejerceria como profesor en diversas universidades.
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